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Autopathography Across Media: Trauma And Fluid Embodied Subjectivity, He (Kristen) Shen

Honors Theses

Illness memoirs with first-person point of view have gained more attention in recent years among medical sociologists and anthropologists. Different from traditional “case histories”written by doctors that are in danger of ignoring patients’ voices, autopathograhical works delineate narrators’ transformative experiences of persons to patients, emphasizing the importance of gaining social understanding of illness. Focusing on three works within the category of autopathography across genres and media forms in the late 1950s and contemporary periods, The Cancer Journals (1980) written by Audre Lorde, The Collected Schizophrenias (2019) written by Esmé Weijun Wang, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) directed …

2023 Oregon Statewide Homelessness Estimates, Jacen Greene, Franklin H. Spurbeck, Marisa Zapata

Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative Publications and Presentations

Executive Summary excerpt:

The Point-In-Time (PIT) count is a census of people experiencing both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness on a single night in January. The federal government requires this as a condition of funding it distributes to Continuums of Care (CoCs), networks of government agencies and service providers that manage homelessness services and funding in specific regions. Oregon has eight CoCs, five of which manage their own PIT count, which leads to variation in methodology and completeness. The PIT count’s accuracy is further reduced because it only captures homelessness on a single night, missing changes throughout the year, and uses …

Autophonia: A Memoir In Essays, Amy Blanchard

Masters Theses

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Moonshine Babies, Arghavan Heydareslam

Theses and Dissertations

Moonshine Babies is a two-screen film made of collage/cut-out stop-motion and live-action. It is a visual poem based on my journals from when I recently started living in the US as an outsider. The experience left me feeling divided between the empty present and memories of the past. suggesting that there are collective memories among a group of interconnected individuals that unite them within a single narrative.

There was a moment when I asked, "If you are your memories, what does it mean to be somewhere you have no memories of and no one has memories of you there?"

Memories …

Strictly Intersectional Scrutiny: A Recommendation For Transforming The Epc To Highlight Queer Black Women, Kayla M. Richardson

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and how this interpretation can become more intersectional for Black queer women. This question is explored within the scope of two theoretical frameworks: Derrick Bell’s theory of interest convergence and Kimberlé Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality. This project examines whether any factors compel SCOTUS to be more intersectional in its approach to the Fourteenth Amendment. Simultaneously, this study also considers what social contexts make SCOTUS more likely to focus on the interests of the oppressor, a demographic …

Women, Animals, Food: Planetary Perspectives On The Non-(Hu)Man, Samu/Elle Striewski

Comparative Woman

The paper comparatively reads Mahasweta Devi’s Pterodactyl, Pirtha, and Puran Sahay (1995) and Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood (2009) to trace the ways in which both novels show the complex intertwinement of the climate crisis with gender, class, race, subalternity, anthropocentrism, and veganism. Bringing together Gayatri C. Spivak’s notion of “planetarity” with ecofeminist philosophy and literary criticism, the article proposes a planetary ecogender reading of the two texts and their representation of the non-man, non-human, and non-subject. Building up further on Jacques Derrida’s critique of carno-phallogocentrism, the pedagogy of a relational ethics of “nurturing” is hence presented …

พลังแห่งการอดอาหารประท้วง : การอดอาหารประท้วงทำงานอย่างไร?, เสกสิทธิ์ แย้มสงวนศักดิ์

Journal of Social Sciences

บทความนี้ศึกษาการอดอาหารประท้วง (hunger strike) ผ่านการรวบรวมและประมวลข้อค้นพบจากงานศึกษาต่าง ๆ บทความอภิปรายใน 3 ประเด็นที่เกี่ยวเนื่องกัน ได้แก่ ประการแรก โต้แย้งต่อความเข้าใจที่ว่า การอดอาหารประท้วงจะทำงานได้ผลก็เฉพาะในบางเงื่อนไขอย่างการอดอาหารในบริบทประชาธิปไตยหรือการใช้การอดอาหารต่อผู้ที่รักในตัวผู้อดอาหาร  ประการที่สอง เสนอว่าการอดอาหารประท้วงทำงานอย่างไร  และ ประการสุดท้าย การสำรวจปัจจัยที่เกี่ยวข้องกับความสำเร็จของการอดอาหารประท้วง  บทความสำรวจภาพรวมกรณีการอดอาหารประท้วงสมัยใหม่เพื่อยืนยันว่า การอดอาหารประท้วงถูกใช้ในบริบทที่หลากหลาย  รวมทั้งในเชิงผลลัพธ์การอดอาหารประท้วงอาจนำไปสู่การได้รับการตอบสนองข้อเรียกร้องแม้ภายใต้ระบอบเผด็จการ  บทความเสนอว่า การอดอาหารประท้วงมีกลไกการทำงานที่สำคัญประกอบด้วย การระดมความสนใจในการสื่อสาร, การระดมการสนับสนุนและความเห็นอกเห็นใจ, การบีบบังคับ, และการเบี่ยงเบนสถานะ ความรับผิด เหล่านี้ทำให้การอดอาหารประท้วงยังคงทำงานได้แม้ถูกใช้ในบริบทที่ไม่เป็นประชาธิปไตยหรือใช้ต่อผู้ที่เห็นว่า ผู้อดอาหารเป็นศัตรู

Representation In Healthcare Matters: Perspectives On Inadequate Physician Diversity And Its Potential Impact On Minority Patients, Madison Andrews

Sociology Honors Papers

Disparities in access to healthcare among U.S. racial and ethnic groups, including access to quality services, have existed for centuries (Gibbons, 2005), leading to inequality in health outcomes as race/ethnicity intersects with gender and socioeconomic status (Wellons et al., 2009; Yan et al., 2023). Patients from minority communities face disadvantages due to the lack of diversity amongst physicians, including communication barriers, lack of trust, lesser rapport, and lower level of comfort with doctors who are non-representative of patients’ demographics (Ha & Longnecker, 2010; Lopez et al., 2023; Maldonado et al., 2014; Weech-Maldonado et al., 2003). It is important, then, to …

Why Broker Novel Concepts Into Economic Sociology? Transcending The New Economic Sociology, Aaron Z. Pitluck

Faculty Publications – Sociology and Anthropology

This Current Sociology Monograph draws together six articles that broker novel concepts into economic sociology. To orient this enterprise, this article examines the concepts of creativity and novelty in social theory and explains why it is challenging work to broker concepts across intellectual communities. To understand the existing boundaries across which one could broker, it next describes how the subfield of economic sociology has been shaped by the separation of economics and sociology as distinct fields, which ultimately led to a decline of sociologists studying the economy. Two counter-acting organizational forces that sought to institutionalize a subfield of economic sociology …

Housing Equity In Golden Gate Village, Nicole White

Social Justice | Senior Theses

For generations, the African American community has faced many forms of housing discrimination that have created major inequalities in their everyday lived experiences (Lockwood, 2020). This study explores the long-lasting effects of discriminatory housing policies in creating disparate housing conditions within the public housing community in Marin City called Golden Gate Village, as well as the role of the Marin Housing Authority in practices of displacement and neglect. The methodology for the study included seven different interviews with Golden Gate Village residents to obtain knowledge about the community as well as grasp an understanding of the lived experiences of the …

Does Hookup Culture Silence Women?, Kylee Rose Rock

Honors Theses and Capstones

The issue of hookup culture on college campuses is of concern to many feminist scholars, given the alarming rates of sexual assault and unsafe sexual experiences in the college setting. This essay argues that hookup culture has the ability to silence women by means of the social landscape which college-aged adults find themselves in today. Further, this essay examines the social experiences of young women on college campuses, and advocates for a change in social habits and scripts through reconsidering our approach to the anti-porn movement in today’s modern culture. Drawing upon literature from Rae Langton’s work, "Speech Acts and …

Not Just A Simple Survey: A Case Study Of Pitfalls In Interdisciplinary, Multiorganizational, Multinational Research For Development, Fleur B.M. Kilwinger, Cynthia Caron, Anne M. Reitveld, Ynte K. Van Dam

Sustainability and Social Justice

Surveys are common research methods in agricultural research for development. Despite the multitude of well-documented warnings for pitfalls in survey research, it appears challenging to avoid these in practice. We use a case study in agricultural research for development to illustrate what complicates survey research within an interdisciplinary, multiorganizational and multinational team. The survey research process, rather than the survey outcome, is our object of study. Using the Methodology of Interdisciplinary Research (MIR) framework we identify different steps within survey research. We overlay a technographic lens to understand “the making of a survey”. We thereby focus on the transformations made …

Effects Of Dehumanization And Disgust-Eliciting Language On Attitudes Toward Immigration: A Sentiment Analysis Of Twitter Data, Katherine S. Wahrer, Cynthia J. Najdowski, John V. Passarelli

Psychology Faculty Scholarship

Attitudes towards immigration have been shown to be driven by dehumanization and disgust. The more people dehumanize immigrants and the more disgusted they feel, the more negative attitudes they tend to have toward immigrants. However, little is known about how exposure to social media content that links dehumanization, disgust, and immigration influences users’ attitudes on this issue. This is important to consider because the majority of adults in the United States are on social media. We used Twitter data, machine learning, and sentiment analysis to investigate whether exposure to dehumanizing or disgust-eliciting tweets about immigration impacts users’ own sentiment toward …

Discourses That Undermine Union Movements: A Multimodal Analysis Of Union-Busting Videos, Theresa A. Catalano, Julia Schleck

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Labor unions in the United States have experienced decades of decline, but recent years have seen a rebirth of union campaigns and successes. Because unions are once again becoming a threat to large companies, it is reasonable to assume that efforts to discourage organizing efforts will increase and become even more robust in the near future. Although traditionally, companies have worked to suspend union organizing through captive audience meetings in which unions were discussed via verbal or written modes, more recent means of reaching workers with anti-union messages incorporate a variety of communication strategies to get the message across. As …

Access Of Thai Language And The Social Integration Of Shan Migrants In Chiang Mai, Thailand, Nan Tharaphi Aye Lwin

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis examines how access to Thai language education influences the social integration of Shan migrants in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Grounded in the 4A Rights-Based Framework (Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability, Adaptability) and Bosswick and Heckmann’s social integration model, the study employs a primarily qualitative approach complemented with mini survey data, migrant case studies, and key informant interviews with educators and CSO leaders. Findings reveal that no single program fully embodies all four components of the 4A Framework. CSO-led programs tend to offer more culturally responsive, flexible, and beginner-friendly learning environments, while formal state-run programs often require prior literacy and are less …

Unpacking The Factors Shaping Long-Term Migration And Livelihoods Of Karen Migrant Workers In Pathum Thani, Thailand, Saw Wai Lu Aung

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study explores the experiences of long-term Karen migrant workers in Pathum Thani province, Thailand. It includes two primary research questions. The first question examines the factors contributing to their long-term settlement in Thailand, while the second question investigates their livelihood strategies for sustaining their livelihoods over time. The study is conducted in the largest agricultural wholesale product market, known as Talad Thai Market, and its surrounding areas in Pathum Thani province. It employs a mixed-methods approach, combining a survey with case study interviews. The survey includes 100 long-term Karen migrant workers who have worked in the market for at …

The Struggle For Educationamong Somali Refugees In Bangkok, Kochaporn Tohsa

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The study investigates the multifaceted barriers – legal, institution, social and cultural – hindering Somali refugee children in accessing education in Bangkok, Thailand. Rooted in prolonged political instability and economic constraints in Somalia, which has forced thousands of families to flee their homes throughout Southeast Asia, the study situates the struggles of Somali refugee children within the context of Bangkok’s urban refugee setting. Thailand is home to a large number of undocumented migrants, including a small but growing number of Somali refugee families, despite not being a signatory state to the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. These refugee …

Between Borders And Wars: A Study Of Survival Livelihoods In A Kachin Refugee Camp, Ja Seng Bawk

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Myanmar (Burma) has experienced prolonged civil conflict, including the Kachin conflict, which reignited in 2011 following the breakdown of a 17-year ceasefire agreement. Rooted in decades of political and ethnic tensions between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burmese military (Tatmadaw). The ongoing conflict has displaced more than 100,000 people in Kachin and Northern Shan States. Many continue to live in overcrowded displacement camps located in both government-controlled and Kachin Independence Organization (KIO)-controlled areas near the China–Myanmar border. For youth growing up in these conflict-affected settings, life in refugee camps poses numerous challenges, including limited economic opportunities, restricted social …

Beyond The ‘Boy Crisis’: Reframing Gender Performativity In Belgian Classrooms, Marjolein Vanmaercke

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This thesis challenges the dominant discourse surrounding the so-called "boy crisis" in education by critically examining gender performativity in Belgian classrooms. Rather than accepting the narrative that boys are inherently disadvantaged in contemporary schooling, this study interrogates how gender is constructed and performed within educational settings. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, the research explores how teachers, curricula, and peer interactions contribute to the reinforcement or subversion of traditional gender norms. Using qualitative methods, including classroom observations and interviews with educators and students, the study highlights the ways in which gendered expectations shape students' educational experiences and outcomes. The …

การประทุษวาจาในสังคมออนไลน์ : กรณีศึกษาการประทุษวาจาที่มีต่อ “คนอีสาน” ของประเทศไทยในแพลตฟอร์มเฟซบุ๊ก, จิรภัทร จ้างประเสริฐ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การศึกษานี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาบริบท การสำรวจความคิดเห็นและผลกระทบ ตลอดจนการกำกับดูแลปัญหาและมาตรการในการลดปัญหาการประทุษวาจาในสื่อสังคมออนไลน์ โดยเฉพาะเกี่ยวกับคนอีสานในแพลตฟอร์มเฟซบุ๊ก โดยใช้วิธีวิจัยเชิงสำรวจจากกลุ่มตัวอย่างที่เป็นผู้ใช้งาน 50 คน ผ่านเครื่องมือแบบสอบถามในการเก็บข้อมูล วิธีวิจัยเชิงคุณภาพโดยการสัมภาษณ์เชิงลึกจากผู้ให้ข้อมูลสำคัญ 3 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ กลุ่มที่เป็นผู้สร้างเนื้อหาดังกล่าวในแพลตฟอร์มเฟซบุ๊ก กลุ่มผู้พบเห็นหรือได้รับผลกระทบ และ กลุ่มผู้เชี่ยวชาญในการกำกับดูแล และ วิธีวิจัยชาติพันธุ์วรรณนาทางอินเตอร์เน็ต (Netnography) โดยคัดเลือกข้อความที่ได้จากการเข้าร่วมแบบไม่มีอคติ และ ไม่มีการแสดงความคิดเห็นหรือตั้งกระทู้ถามในเพจและกลุ่มที่เข้าร่วม ผลการศึกษาพบว่า 1) ปัญหาการประทุษวาจาเกี่ยวกับคนอีสานเกิดจากปัจจัยหลักมาจากภาพจำที่มีต่อคนอีสาน การยั่วยุหรือการ “ปั่น” ทั้งจากผู้ใช้งานที่เป็นคนอีสานเพื่อความสนุกสนาน และ การขาดความภูมิใจในอัตลักษณ์ทางภูมิภาคความเป็นอีสาน รวมถึงปัจจัยทางออนไลน์ร่วมด้วย 2) รูปแบบของเพจหรือกลุ่มสาธารณะที่เกี่ยวกับการประทุษวาจาคนอีสานสามารถแบ่งได้ 3 ประเภท คือ เพจหรือกลุ่มที่มีการนำเสนอเนื้อหาอย่างรุนแรง เพจหรือกลุ่มที่มีการนำเสนอการประทุษวาจาคนอีสานในบางครั้ง และ เพจหรือกลุ่มที่ไม่ได้มีการนำเสนอการประทุษวาจาคนอีสาน แต่ผู้ใช้สื่อสังคมออนไลน์มองว่าเป็นการประทุษวาจาคนอีสาน 3) ความรู้สึกของคนอีสานที่พบเห็นเนื้อหาลักษณะดังกล่าว ส่วนหนึ่งอาจโมโหและตอบโต้กลับ บางส่วนมองว่าข้อความเหล่านี้ทำให้เกิดความเกลียดชังและการแบ่งแยกในสังคม 4) ผลกระทบที่เกิดขึ้นต่อสังคมไทยจากปัญหาดังกล่าวสามารถกระทบต่อผู้ใช้งานที่สร้างเนื้อหาอาจถูกดำเนินคดีตามกฎหมาย ผู้อ่านที่พบเห็นเนื้อหาอาจกระทบต่อจิตใจ และ อาจส่งผลกระทบทำให้สังคมเกิดอาชญากรรมที่เกิดจากความเกลียดชังในอนาคตได้ 5) เมื่อวิเคราะห์ข้อมูลที่คัดมาจากการเข้าร่วมเพจและกลุ่มสาธารณะพบว่าส่วนใหญ่แสดงออกถึงข้อความเชิงลบ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อแสดงความรู้สึกและก้าวร้าว และ บางข้อความมีการใช้ข้อความที่แสดงออกถึงการกลั่นแกล้งบนโลกออนไลน์ 6) มาตรการที่มีอยู่ในปัจจุบันสามารถกำกับดูแลปัญหาการประทุษวาจาได้ในระดับหนึ่ง ซึ่งยังมีประเด็นที่ยังสามารถเกิดขึ้นได้ โดยการใช้ AI ในการติดตามเนื้อหาเป็นเครื่องมือหนึ่งที่สามารถเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการจัดการปัญหาดังกล่าว 7) แนวทางที่เหมาะสมนอกเหนือจากการใช้เครื่องมือ AI ในการจัดการปัญหาการประทุษวาจาในสื่อสังคมออนไลน์ คือ การสร้างความเข้าใจอันดีและยอมรับในความแตกต่างของคนในสังคม และสร้างมาตรการอื่นๆ ในการกำกับดูแลปัญหาการประทุษวาจาคนอีสานในสื่อสังคมออนไลน์ไทย

Access To Reproductive Health: Experiences Of Female Migrant Workers From Myanmar In Samut Sakhon, Thailand, Phutita Sriprapha

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Thailand remains a major destination for migrant workers from neighboring countries and hosts a large population of Myanmar migrants, including many women. Despite their contributions to local economic development, female migrant workers face persistent barriers to accessing reproductive healthcare. This study analyzes the structural, personal, and social dimensions of reproductive health access among Myanmar migrant women in Samut Sakhon province. Using the 4A framework, Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability, and Adaptability together with intersectionality, the study draws on 12 semi-structured interviews to explore how structural, personal, and social factors affect their reproductive healthcare access. Multiple dimensions of identity were also explored to …

Beyond The Hands: Exploring Intersectional Identities Of Black American Sign Language Users, Tatum Turner

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

There is a significant gap in research related to the impact of intersectionality on linguistic identity performance among individuals negotiating multiple marginalized identities. This gap is especially significant among deaf Black and African American individuals who use the American Sign Language (ASL) variety deemed Black American Sign Language (BASL) (Hairston & Smith, 1983). This research aims to identify and discuss the use of the eight distinguishing features of BASL (McCaskill et al. 2011) as indexes of intersectional identities.

My data consists of videos sourced from YouTube, each chosen according to the following criteria: must have at least one self-identifying Black …

Prophylactic Rights: Sex Work, Hiv/Aids, And Anti-Trafficking In India, Simanti Dasgupta

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights examines the emergence of labour rights at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking. The primary disciplinary contribution of this book lies in bridging medical and legal anthropology through a corporeal understanding of sex work rights. It addresses the following questions: How does the labour rights narrative emerge through everyday negotiations with an epidemic and the law and what congeries of history, public health policies, legal regimes, and techniques of subjection and subversion impede and impel the labour movement? The book will …

Sensing, Knowing, And Making Water Quality Along Marikina River In The Philippines, Gideon Lasco, Anita Hardon

Development Studies Faculty Publications

Water quality is a major concern around the world, but assessments of quality often privilege producers, regulators and experts over consumers. With water supplies and sources constantly in flux, how do ordinary people experience and “sense” quality? How do they define “good” or “good enough” water, and what practices do they engage in to “make” good water? In this article, we attend to these questions by presenting findings from an open-ended qualitative study carried out along the Marikina River, Manila, the Philippines – a waterway that courses from rural and mountainous villages to highly urbanized communities. First, we describe the …

"Ruskiy Mir" And "Ukrainskyi Svit": Ontological And Anthropological Antagonists, Liudmyla Fylypovych, Oksana Horkusha

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The article focuses on a crucial issue of global interest--attempts of the Russian Federation to reformat the world according to the worldview model of the "Ruskiy mir." The paradigm of the "Ruskiy mir" assumes a system of values (ontological, anthropological, theological, and historiographical ideas and behavioral models) programmed by the entire russian history, as defined by russian culture, traditions, and the russian worldview. According to the "Russian worldview," the world should have a different structure, and the global international system should have a different format: Moscow (the Russian Empire and the Russian Federation) should be at the center of the …

Centering Community Voice And Knowledge Through Participatory Action Research, Jennifer Lucko

Education | Faculty Scholarship

This paper analyzes a Participatory Action Research (PAR) Project focused on improving public safety and community lighting in one Latinx immigrant community in California as a case example to better understand the possibilities for university-community-government partnerships. The paper explores residents' motivations for their sustained participation in the project, the relationships and power dynamics that led to a $100,000 commitment from the city government to fund the recommendations of the PAR collective, and the social contexts that allowed community residents to position themselves as political actors as the PAR project progressed over the 2021-2022 academic year. This case example illustrates how …

Thailand's Never-Ending Pesticide Debate: Contested Future Sociotechnical Imaginaries Through A Relational Co-Productionist Lens, Henriette Erawan Kamphorst

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Since the introduction of the Green Revolution, the use of agrochemicals in Thai farming has sparked repeated contentious debates among local policy elites, addressing issues such as consumer health, farmer livelihoods, and environmental degradation. In 2019, this subject re-emerged on the policy agenda with the proposed ban of three key agrochemicals: Chlorpyrifos, Paraquat, and Glyphosate. In order to understand why the pesticide issue has remained on policy actors’ agendas for so long and still continues to be subject to ongoing debate, this research takes on a new perspective by adopting a relational co-productionist approach in the construction of contesting sociotechnical …

Humor Matters: An Adapted Multiple Case Study Exploring Music Therapists’ Perspectives Of Humor With Older Adults, Caleb M. Posey

Theses and Dissertations--Music

Humor is a ubiquitous human experience and a skill retained in older adulthood. It is also an integral but elusive therapeutic tool with numerous benefits and risks to well-being. Therapeutic humor – the application of humor to client well-being – is an emerging area of study. However, scant music therapy literature on humor is available. The purpose of this qualitative thesis was to explore the use and function of humor in music therapy with older adults from the perspectives of experienced music therapists. There were three research questions: (1) how do music therapists describe their use of humor with older …

The Violence Of Numbers: A Critical Appraisal Of The Justice Capabilities Framework, Abhineet Maurya

Socio-Legal Review

Systems of indicators and international rankings have today become a new mode of evaluating social, political, and economic life. In the context of measuring the rule of law and justice delivery systems at a local as well as a global level, such indicators enable empirically grounded solutions to justice reform issues. However, scholars like Siddharth Peter de Souza argue that the existing discourse concerning the rule of law and access to justice indicators promote a specific vision of a well functioning justice system grounded in western normative considerations. de Souza, in his book Designing Indicators for a Plural Legal World …

Community Scientist Program Provides Bi-Directional Communication And Co-Learning Between Researchers And Community Members, Jessica Alvarado, Larkin L Strong, Birnur Buzcu-Guven, Leonetta B Thompson, Erica Cantu, Chelsea C Carrier, Chiamaka D Chukwu, Cassandra L Harris, Luz K Melendez, Crystal L Roberson, Angela M Ross, Sophia C Russell, Pablo Sanchez, Amirali Tahanan, Blair C Zdenek, Belinda M Reininger, Lorna H Mcneill

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Community involvement in research is key to translating science into practice, and new approaches to engaging community members in research design and implementation are needed. The Community Scientist Program, established at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston in 2018 and expanded to two other Texas institutions in 2021, provides researchers with rapid feedback from community members on study feasibility and design, cultural appropriateness, participant recruitment, and research implementation. This paper aims to describe the Community Scientist Program and assess Community Scientists' and researchers' satisfaction with the program. We present the analysis of the data collected from 116 Community Scientists …